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Im in need of help. Today as i was working on After effects cs4 and i stupidly exported my clip with the same name as i brought it in with.

eg. I was working on the clip "Oakwell extra" and i exported as "Oakwell extra", ofc this immediately overwrite the file and i got the media offline bars instead of the clip. resulting in a clip of bars with the effects over the top.

is there anyway i can get back the original file "Oakwell extra"?

Unfortunately im not using time machine

i may be able to open another ae project from the original source footage with a similar effect that can be adapted. But i get the error message

It is strange that when saving/exporting a new file as the same name of an existing file you didn't get some sort of a warning that you were overwriting an existing file? If you did and hit overwrite anyway...with no time machine or other backup, not sure how you'd get back to the original file..